Prep basketball: Pleasant Grove 72, Riverton 50

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Pleasant Grove • For most of Friday night's game, the scoreboard could have used "MC" as the home team abbreviation, instead of "PG."

That's because for a good part of Pleasant Grove's 72-50 Region 4 victory against Riverton, power forward Matt Conway was outscoring the Silverwolves.

One week after setting a career high in scoring against Lehi, the Vikings' 6-foot-6 senior scored 38 points and dominated the paint at both ends of the floor.

"My team knows I like to run, so we keep pushing it," said Conway, who scored 34 points last week. "They like to feed me, and I got really good looks."

Conway had 22 points at halftime as the Vikings (12-1, 2-0) jumped out to a 38-22 lead at the break. A 12-foot jumper in the second quarter was the longest of his 14 field goals.

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"We just told him [Conway] if you get where you're supposed to get, we'll get you the ball," Pleasant Grove coach Randy McAllister said. "Every team that has a player like Matt is going to look there first. We'd be a fool not to.

"He's doing the work and the guards are being super unselfish."

A Riley Court-to Conway alley-oop capped the first-half run, and the Vikings didn't look back as they won their 10th consecutive game and set up a showdown with defending state champion Lone Peak next week.

"That's PG defense for you right there," Conway said. "We didn't come out how we wanted to against Lehi  we came out a little soft. We wanted to push up on them [Riverton] right from the get-go and get up early."

Jaron Jones scored 13 points and Jeff Arens scored 12 points for the Silverwolves (9-5, 2-1). Brandon Sly, Riverton's leading scorer on the season, didn't score until the 2:18 mark of the second quarter and finished with 10 points. 

Storylines

O Pleasant Grove's Matt Conway scores a career-high 38 points to lead the Vikings over Riverton.

• The Vikings improve to 12-1 overall, 2-0 in Region 4, heading into a showdown with Lone Peak on Tuesday.

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